From 25ef8d894e9f34e9dad9b021ba9d707f9a94dee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:50:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 317191 b: refs/heads/master c:
 e4e8b7765867e8f4705bcc18b8930edbe0e4ef3c h: refs/heads/master i:   317189:
 28390cedfdd50f0612c0ef96b99ae992ac764af0   317187:
 5154a367c29b7cf755d7406955e9178b53883ffb   317183:
 4374de88e8e9ed0c0a788299710a2b6214caebad v: v3

---
 [refs]                        |  2 +-
 trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index a9e41ac92a84..c1847bbae9bb 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 44dd5b02530a5aaea16c1a0a9eea377407445b4a
+refs/heads/master: e4e8b7765867e8f4705bcc18b8930edbe0e4ef3c
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
index 3a4f6a3ab80d..3238fa3374f7 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
@@ -438,6 +438,17 @@ static inline struct iio_dev *dev_to_iio_dev(struct device *dev)
 	return container_of(dev, struct iio_dev, dev);
 }
 
+/**
+ * iio_device_get() - increment reference count for the device
+ * @indio_dev: IIO device structure
+ *
+ * Returns: The passed IIO device
+ **/
+static inline struct iio_dev *iio_device_get(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
+{
+	return indio_dev ? dev_to_iio_dev(get_device(&indio_dev->dev)) : NULL;
+}
+
 /* Can we make this smaller? */
 #define IIO_ALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
 /**